Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] her [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British tourist Stephen Profitt , who paid £200 for Lucky in Malta , was fined £100 yesterday for bringing her into the country without a licence . |
| 2 | Since the firm he works for won the contract for the Statue of Liberty , it has been responsible for protecting her from the ravages of harsh Atlantic weather . |
| 3 | The fact that she had been the ship that had sunk the Rawalpindi and killed my father did not seem to me to be a valid reason for omitting her from the series , for apart from the utter impersonality of a modern sea battle , she was by far the most successful of all the major German surface ships as well as being the happiest . |
| 4 | She answered the telephone , thanked the Martellis for thanking her for the party . |
| 5 | In particular Jan had been impressed with Kylie after seeing her on The Zoo Family . |
| 6 | Stella was afraid Babs might tell Dotty that she did n't wear a slip and that Dotty would rush out and buy her one , just as she had bought her a brassière after catching her in the wardrobe with her arms above her head about to be fitted for her Ptolemy costume . |
| 7 | She had accepted that he had had grounds for dismissing her at the time , considering the state of that little radio station 's finances . |
| 8 | To hurt Thérèse back for robbing her of the lady in the woods . |
| 9 | ‘ If anyone 's to blame , it 's me , for pushing her over the edge . |
| 10 | I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take . |
| 11 | In 1682 a printer gave a boost to cannibalism by substituting ‘ if the latter husband ate her ’ instead of hate her in the verses on the Mosaic law of divorce at Deuteronomy xxiv.3 . |
| 12 | But since she had wrecked Luke 's plans for a country weekend with Lexy , and deprived him of the possibility of replacing her from the ranks of his unofficial harem , perhaps it was hardly surprising that he should demand that she herself should fill the gap . |
| 13 | George felt anxious that he had had no opportunity to be alone with Tamar , and so there had been no chance of warning her about the groom . |
| 14 | Instead of ordering her off the boat , he was now beginning a more subtle campaign . |
| 15 | She waited all day for the Kurd to return , but he failed to do so ; and when she made enquiries the next morning she was told that he had left the town within minutes of conducting her to the priest 's house . |
| 16 | Just the thought of having her around the place made him irritable . |
| 17 | In this case I am satisfied that the doctors were justified in disregarding the written instructions of Miss T. and of treating her on the basis of an emergency . |
| 18 | Tess manages to infiltrate the world of high finance with a fabulous proposal that has the potential of taking her to the top . |
| 19 | He suddenly swung her into his arms , his tortured breathing the only sound in the darkened barn , and instead of carrying her down the stairs he turned and lowered her to the soft hay that was spread thickly on the floor behind them . |
| 20 | Instead of lifting her into the saddle first , as he had always done before , he mounted Chalon , turned the horse in a tight circle to present its left flank to Isabel , and extended an imperative hand . |
| 21 | well he could of done if he 'd of taken her in the car would , could n't she ? |
| 22 | Had he been so sure of finding her at the alehouse ? |
| 23 | Well , no point in denying it , she took after her mother 's side of the family for looks even if she had her dad 's brains , and Mrs. Pridmore had no intention of exposing her to the temptations of London . |
| 24 | He met two artists , husband and wife , ‘ awfully sweet , she has a bold yet subtle and exotic sense of colour ’ , and thought of trying her for the costumes ; he had already got another artist to try and ‘ you never saw such revue in all your life ’ . |
| 25 | As a matter of fact , I 'm thinking of offering her to The Lancet . |
| 26 | If indeed he 'd secured the tickets as a way of bribing her between the sheets , then he suffered for his lust . |
| 27 | She hated the school for forcing her through the mockery of inquiry . |
| 28 | Her twin sister Sally , of Penarth , South Glamorgan , south Wales , begged school-friends and neighbours not to feel guilty about sending her on the venture . |
| 29 | He had thought about sending her to the oculist and he was much nicer to Gran . |
| 30 | She directed her anger at her husband as well as Luke and was frustrated by her husband 's passivity and lack of activity in helping her with the problem as well as more generally in their relationship . |